Llanwnda
Llanwnda is a village, community and electoral ward in Gwynedd, Wales. The community has a population of 1,994 as taken at the 2011 Census. It is situated about 3 miles to the south of Caernarfon, and 5 miles south-west of Llanrug.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 1,000 residents
- Description: village in Gwynedd, Wales
- Also known as: “Llanwnda, Gwynedd”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Dinas railway station and Bontnewydd railway station.
Dinas railway station
Railway station
Photo: NoelWalley, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Dinas is a station on the narrow gauge Welsh Highland Railway, which was built in 1877 as the North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways Moel Tryfan Undertaking to carry dressed slate for trans-shipment to the LNWR.
Bontnewydd railway station
Railway station
Photo: Cls14, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bontnewydd is an unstaffed halt on the narrow gauge Welsh Highland Railway. The halt was opened on 31 May 1999 on the petition of the villagers of Bontnewydd, and is between Caernarfon and Dinas on the Lôn Eifion cycle route.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bontnewydd and Groeslon.
Bontnewydd
Village
Photo: Bill Payer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bontnewydd is a small village and community with a population of 1,162 located on the A487 road 1+2⁄3 miles south of Caernarfon in Gwynedd, Wales, close to the river Gwyrfai, 2 miles from its outflow into Foryd Bay.
Groeslon
Village
Photo: DS Pugh, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Groeslon is a small village in the community of Llandwrog in Gwynedd, Wales. The population was 880 at the 2011 census. Nearby villages are Penygroes, Carmel and Dinas. Groeslon is situated 1½ miles south of Llanwnda.
Rhosgadfan
Village
Photo: Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Rhosgadfan is a Welsh village in the county of Gwynedd, formerly in the historic county of Caernarfonshire, and in the community of Llanwnda. It is notable as the birthplace of Kate Roberts, one of the greatest Welsh-language writers of the 20th century; her childhood home is now a museum. Rhosgadfan is situated 2 miles east of Llanwnda.
Llanwnda
- Categories: community, hamlet, and locality
- Location: Llanwnda, Gwynedd, North Wales, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.10047° or 53° 6′ 2″ northLongitude
-4.27673° or 4° 16′ 36″ westPopulation
1,000Elevation
177 feet (54 metres)Open location code
9C5Q4P2F+58OpenStreetMap ID
node 1813470972OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2643913Wikidata ID
Q3400157
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Llanwnda” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Llanwnda”
- Breton: “Llanwnda”
- Catalan: “Llanwnda”
- Cebuano: “Llanwnda”
- Chinese: “Llanwnda”
- Cornish: “Llanwnda”
- Dutch: “Llanwnda”
- French: “Llanwnda”
- Irish: “Llanwnda”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Llanwnda”
- Swedish: “Llanwnda”
- Welsh: “Llanwnda, Gwynedd”
- Welsh: “Llanwnda”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Llanwnda”. Photo: Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.